gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Default)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2003-08-25 07:43 pm

If only I had found this before Kiri left

A Right-wing fundie view of Burning Man. It's a few years old, but funny as, well, hell.

[identity profile] aurictech.livejournal.com 2003-08-25 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
In the "Damning with faint praise" department, I'll grant them one thing:

At least they didn't mistranslate Novus Ordo Seclorum as "A New Secular Order."

[identity profile] aurictech.livejournal.com 2003-08-25 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, and interestingly enough, Hermes/Mercury was not mentioned among the gods and goddesses named in the author's list near the end of the page. Nor was Eris/Discordia, for that matter. I'd be willing to bet that at least some events at the Burning Man honor these Greco-Roman deities. Why does the author not give credit where credit's due?

Is the author putting up a smokescreen to mask his own Hermetic or Discordian beliefs...? ;-)

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2003-08-26 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
I'm willing to bet he's never heard of the Lady of Discord. or knows Mercury as anything other than the messenger of the gods.